HyVee used to be a good place, focused on Employees. - Anonymous employee Hy-Vee Employee Review

2.0
11 Aug 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent benefits, 401k, okay insurance. Flexible hours, opportunity for advancement in each store. Hard work is generally rewarded.

Cons

Before the retirement of the longtime CEO, Ric Jurgens, in 2012, HyVee cared much more about its employees. After Randy Edeker was elected as the new CEO, HyVee became much more corporate in the way it was run. Hours were cut on all part time employees to below the level to provide health insurance. The last department I worked in, Product Management, used to have to come in at 2 AM on Wednesday morning to run the new ad. Recently, that was changed company wide to Sunday morning at 2AM, essentially making it impossible for product management to have a weekend social life.

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Cons

Your high efforts are not rewarded. Benefits only include the time you put into retail that can be considered experience. Although you have the title for a specific position you will still be forced to complete tasks of another position. Although I was a checker, I was also put on hot food line, samples, cart duty, cleaning bathrooms, cleaning spills, watching self check out, stocking, and many more. Any sense of enjoyment with other coworkers gets shut down quick by management. Availability can be ignored by management. Lots of drama with coworkers. No penalty for inappropriate and unprofessional work. Management cares about business more than employees even though it is “employee owned”.

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